2020 Police Department Annual Report

SSERT CALL OUTS

The South Suburban Emergency Response Team (SSERT) is a multi-jurisdictional emergency response team comprised of thirty-four (34) police departments in the south suburbs of Chicago. The team is responsible for the protection of approximately 600,000 residents in an area that is over 150 square miles. The response team is designed to provide member agencies with a tactical response to Critical Incidents. Currently, the Orland Park Police Department has two (2) full-time sworn officers and two (2) full-time civilian employees assigned to the specialized unit part-time. In 2020, Orland Park Police Department personnel responded to forty-eight (48) call outs, which included seventeen (17) for emergencies such as hostage or barricaded subjects, twenty-six (26) for the execution of high- risk search warrants and five (5) for civil unrest.

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BARRICADED SUBJECT SEARCH WARRANT CIVIL UNREST

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The ILEAS Mobile Field Force (MFF) was created to provide rapid, organized, and disciplined response to civil disorder, crowd control or other tactical situations. The MFF is responsible for assisting with the distribution of pharmaceuticals from the National Strategic Stockpile, weapons of mass destruction incidents, as well as other more conventional events. The Orland Park Police Department has one full-time sworn officer assigned to the specialized unit. In 2020, the Orland Park officer assigned to MMF responded to four (4) call outs. The Orland Park Police Department has one member assigned to the F.B.I.’s Safe Streets Task Force (SRA-1). In 2020 SRA-1 made fifty-two (52) arrests, executed ninety seven (97) search warrants, recovered sixteen (16) weapons, made twenty eight (28) drug seizures, and recovered seven (7) missing/abducted children.

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